That's What Friends Aren't For
That's What Friends Aren't For
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That's What Friends Aren't For

Written and illustrated by Jim Benton
Book #9 in the Dear Dumb Diary Series
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8 - 12
Reading age
144
Page count
100
Words per page
930L
Lexile measure
Jan 1, 2010
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Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don’t tell her.Dear Dumb Diary, So now I’m friends with Angeline. This is automatic friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline’s uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for years and years, and Stinker’s puppies could grow up not knowing both their parents — and I couldn’t live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780545116121
    Publication Date
    January 1, 2010
    Publisher
    Scholastic Paperbacks
    Page Count
    144
    Words Per Page
    100
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2010280096
    Lexile® Level
    930L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~V
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.8
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    2
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    134944
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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